The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief [Audiobook] download free by V. S. Naipaul
- Listen audiobook: The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
- Author: V. S. Naipaul
- Release date: 2011/2/5
- Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780330472043
- Rating: 7.27 of 10
- Votes: 64
- Review by: Leland Taggart
- Review rating: 7.71 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/30
- Duration: 4H14M46S in 256 kbps (67.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, MP4 (compression AZW, CAB, ARJ, RAR, ZIP, TAR.7Z)
- Total pages original book: 336
- Includes a PDF summary of 37 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M23S (7.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilization. Beginning in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Naipaul's journey takes in Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and ends, as the country does, in South Africa. Focusing upon the theme of belief - though sometimes the political or economical realities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken into account - Naipaul examines the fragile but enduring quality of the old world of magic. To witness the ubiquity of such ancient ritual, to be given some idea of its power, was to be taken far back to the beginning of things. To reach that beginning was the purpose of this book. `The quality of Naipaul's writing - simple, concise, engaging - rarely varies . . . Above all, Naipaul's latest African journey is eyewitness reporting at its best' Time
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Guidebooks, Tribal Religions, Religion & Politics, Spirituality & Religious Experience
- Download servers: Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA, S42Transfer, BitShare, Uptobox, Uploaded, FileServe. Compressed in AZW, CAB, ARJ, RAR, ZIP, TAR.7Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 12.66 USD
- Dimensions: 130x197x20mm
- Weight: 223g
- Printed by: PICADOR
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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